Friday, February 27, 2015

Three, Super Quick, she says!

Hey
everyone, Anne-Marie here, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and school holidays... and trust
that all your little darlings are settling back into school. Hard to believe it
is the end of February already. I don’t know about you but life is so busy and
the year seems to be flying past so I have created a couple of super quick,
simple and fun layouts this month.

I always love LOs that just come together easily. This one is literally a few
scraps of left over October Afternoon papers, a bit of printed vellum that’s been
floating around my scrap room for months, a stray 3x4 filler card from the
Becky Higgins’ Project Life Honey Core Kit and some gorgeous little bits of
Your Creative Wings chipboard that have been sitting on my desk waiting
patiently for me. Raw chipboard will always be my “go to” to add that little
finishing touch to simple layouts. Too easy and they just work. These Love Candy circles are my new favourite. I really
love Ali Edwards’ and Cathy Z’s approach to documenting their lives and so I am
going with a “get back to basics”, tell the story style to my scrapbooking this
year.

I
love this range of Kaisercraft Shine Bright papers. This was a left over photo
from Christmas day and I just love it. It captures my darling boy and his
wonderful spirit perfectly so I wanted to add it to his album. Not exactly
traditional Christmas colours but I really love how this turned out. Again a Love Candy and (still a favourite) Printer’s Fist from Your Creative Wings
make the perfect finishing touches.

Once
again inspired by Ali E’s I created a little extra page for my 2014 Project Life album. This gold printed
vellum was part of the packaging from the Webster’s Pages Accessory wallet. The
company started in 1986... the same year I started going out with my husband!
How perfect is this? I just typed "the story of us" onto kraft cardstock
and sewed it over the "Webster's Pages" logo. I turned a Becky
Higgins’ 5x7 photo sleeve into a giant shaker pocket.

As
I have mentioned before I used Becky Higgins’ Project Life Midnight Core Kit
for almost my entire 2014 album. I added
our family name in Your Creative WingsAlpha #2 and used yet another icon
circle to complete my cover page.

I
hope you find some inspiration in these pages and can find some creative time
to get some of your life documented. I am really enjoying this simple approach
this year and can see this working for me. Photos and stories with Your Creative Wings chipboard for the perfect finishing touch is my idea of heaven.